It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.
SOJOURNER TRUTHWhen I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
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This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.
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What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
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Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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The Spirit calls me, and I must go.
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When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
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I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
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I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
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I am a woman’s rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
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The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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